Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-22
Jews In the English Aristocracy.

ENeIy ycaE anu every season bring
some fresh element, some innovation,
or a return Of obsolete traditions, IL
many OF these social revolutions are ef-
iectod without any apparent commotion
ana steal on us, as 1t were unawares, 1t
is yet impossible to look back even one
decade without being struck with tho
radical changes that have taken place in
the English world, and razed so many of
its bulwarks. In the first instance 1t may
be truly said that English society
proper no longer exists, and that
It's exclusiveness is thing Of the past.
In no other country, nominally less
proud, less fastidious, and less conserva.
tive is there such mingling of all races,
all creeds and all origins. The double
thirst for money and excitement may be
at the root OF this strange overthrow of
long. established tenets, but the fear re-
mains that the same family touches the
higher circles by some of its members as
well as the humblest ones of trade ami
toll by the others. Scions of noble race
have been known In haymaking and hop
gathering time to crave from the land
owner q days work IN the fields with
other wandering tramps, and a queens
I'm ,ln,law vornias mas r.. brother % behind
sra..d able barrier ,ba Of religion which @ sep,
Catholic, the christian from the Israelite,
are swept down never. to be erected
again. The time is forgotten when
under Disraells ministry, MIR. Goldwin
Smith, a stout Gladstonian, wrote the
much.discussed pamphlet, Can q Jew
be Patriot?" Gladstone himself gave
a public affirmative answer in his cele.
brated article Of few months past in
the Nineteenth Century. English aristo-
cracy. SO contemptuous of the nobility of
other countries, SO infatuated with the
grandeur and purity of its descent,
growth and alliances, IS profoundly
penetrated and infused with the Semitic
strain; 1t has opened its arms to the
Hebrew, and the blood of both races
flows united in the veins of the ablest in
the land. Take Busl's Peerage, that great
Domesday book of the British. Its latest
and forty.ninth edition will show how
many of the high families of England arc
united by the closest ties with the wealth..
est Hebrew families, and it records to
what supreme dignities the heads of the
latter have reached. Lord Rothschild
has become peer of tho realm; Gold.
smid. Jessel, the late master Of rolls;
omon were created baronets within the
last twenty years; the foreign titles of
Baron Lousada and Baron de Worms
have been recognized; Ellis. Magnus
Sarron and others were knighted, the lat.
ter for building hospital at Calcutta
and erecting a statue to the prince
consort in England. Blum Pasha is
&C. B., and Collins Levey q g. c. M. e.
OF the nobility some families are of
Jewish extraction, others have contracted
Jewish alliances. Among the former are
the Herschells, raised to the peerage in
1886, and the Lopes and Samuelsons,
created baronets in 1882 and 1884. Sir
Francis Head is descendant OF Moses
Mendes, who had married the daughter
and heiress of another Sir Francis Head,
and whose sons bore their mothers
came Mrs. Herbert, sister-in.law of the
earl OF Carnarvon. A woman of an.
other branch of the Mendeses married
Admiral Keith Stewart. brother Of the
seventeenth earl of Galloway, and her
great-granddaughter is the present
marchioness of Tweeddale. Viscountess
Galway belongs to the same family; so
did in direct line the we'll known Lord
Houghton.
The wife of the Earl of March, heir to
the dukedom of Richmond and Gordon,
is the daughter of Percy Ricardo. An.
other Jewish family, Abuoientes of Gid.
con, has intermarried with the British
nobility, and Mr.. Childers Is both on his
mother's and fathers side a descendent
of the celebrated Sampson Gideon, who,
registered in his will the desire of being
buried in a Jewish cemetery by the side
of his Hebrew ancestors.
The Countess of Desart is Bishoff-
sheim; the countess Orkney was the wild
ow of Baron de Samuel; the duchess of
st. Albans is daughter of Ralph Bernal
Osborne; the countess of Kosebery of the
late Baron Meyer de Rothschild, and her
oll nolp hn Hahr 10
names of Meyer. Lady Coutts Lindsay
Is the daughter of certain Hannah
Rothschild, married to the Right Honor
able Henry Fitsroy. brother of Lord
Southampton; Lady Charles Du Cane is
the granddaughter of Louis Goldsmith,
author of the Grimes of Cabinets and
Lady Owen Lanyon was the daughter of
There are two examples of the fusion
of royal and Jewish blood in these pa.
trican houses. The duke of Richmond
and Gordon and Viscount Gage quarter
their escutcheon with the arms of the
Plansgenets IN virtue of their descent
from King Edward 1. The families of
st. Adams and Southampton have like
In France we see the De Vismes, who
claim to descend from the sovereign
house of Ponthies having Jewish blood
by marriage. The Lousaies in England
claim relationship by an alliance with the
reiguing family of Great Britain.
1t must be remarked that with many
members of the Rothschild family IN
England and abroad. the strong aversion
to intermarrying with christians, the
jealousy of seeing their wealth pass into
alien hands, does not prevent them from
including Catholic and Protestant poor
in their charities. Nj. de Blechroeder,
the Berlin fnsncier, the friend of the
emperor, the constant visitor of Bis.
marck, whose daughter is engaged to a
Prussian officer, makes no distinction in
his charities, and is blessed by all de-
nominations. In closing the list of the
English houses allied to the Semetic race,
we must not forget the earls of Lisburn
and the barons of WalpOle. M. DE s.